. The Street railway journal . ive was com-pleted, and was highly satisfactory to the officials of the Gen-eral Electric Company. There was no heating of the bearingsto speak of, and during the time of the test the engine ran 900miles in a blinding snow storm. The Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute has recently increasedits evening instruction in electric engineering by the additionof a laboratory course in dynamo and motor testing. Thesetests will include a number of railway experiments with trolleyequipment in the laboratory. The course began on Jan. 16, andwill include twenty experiments, usual
. The Street railway journal . ive was com-pleted, and was highly satisfactory to the officials of the Gen-eral Electric Company. There was no heating of the bearingsto speak of, and during the time of the test the engine ran 900miles in a blinding snow storm. The Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute has recently increasedits evening instruction in electric engineering by the additionof a laboratory course in dynamo and motor testing. Thesetests will include a number of railway experiments with trolleyequipment in the laboratory. The course began on Jan. 16, andwill include twenty experiments, usually held on Monday eve-nings from 7 130 to 9 :3b. This work will be under the directionof Prof. Sydney W. Ashe, who is an instructor in physics andelectrical engineering in the day classes of this institution. 206 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 5. FIRE INSPECTIONS AND FIRE PRECAUTIONS IN HARTFORD, CONN. The Hartford Street Railway Company has in force at allits various buildings, including three car houses, power house,. la 2V, Valve D. Street Ry .Journal REPRESENTATIVE DIAGRAM USED IN CONNECTION WITHTHE FIRE-INSPECTION SYSTEM All of the buildings belonging to the company, as car housesand power station, are divided into sections for fire-fightingpurposes. These divisions are not necessarily fire walls, butthe area of each building is arbitrarily apportioned off into firesections, the number and extent of which depend on the in-dividual conditions. A special study is then made of eachseparate section, and each is provided with such fire hydrants,hose, fire pails, extinguishers, fire doors, etc., as the conditionsin each area may seem to require for effectually confining andextinguishing any fire that might occur therein. The idea is well illustrated by means of the representativediagram reproduced herewith, which shows the fire sections,hydrants, hose, sprinklers, etc., at the Vernon Street shops ofthe company. Diagrams similar to this are made for all thebuildings, and
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